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Candy Spelling lets you inside 'Candyland'
Los Angeles Times, CA She points to one of her first collections, a carefully positioned cluster of Chinese snuff bottles. "Tori used to play with them and then she'd break them, sometimes, the little spoons," she notes. "I stopped collecting them when I realized they could ... |
 Daily Mail |
'Your father's bought me a bottle of real champagne!' I attempted a smile, but 'champagne' now tolled the same bell of doom as I imagine 'gold' had done for Midas a few days into his curse. Only the previous night, I'd witnessed a mass of ants swarming ... |
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Austinite is ceiling fans' biggest fan
Austin American-Statesman, TX Andrews quit the electrical company right about the time a Nashville magazine did a feature about the former Mother Earth guitar player giving up music for ceiling fans. A big wheel at TGIF restaurants saw the piece and was interested in 52 antique ... |
 Hartford Courant |
Know Your Antiques: 'Tobacciana' Are Smoking-Hot Collectibles
Hartford Courant, United States Some collectors want commercial packaging and advertising, including cigar box labels and wooden boxes, packs of matches, cigar bands, cigarettes packs, trade cards for tobacco products, cut-out newspaper and magazine ads, large posters and other store ... |
 New York Times |
Books of The Times Land of Promise, Home of the Bedeviled and ...
New York Times, United States This arresting debut collection of stories decisively establishes Mr. Tower — a magazine journalist who has also won two Pushcart Prizes — as a writer of uncommon talent, a writer with Sam Shepard’s radar for the violent, surreal convolutions of ... |